Kind: Subsystem
Class: Center
Type: System
Emergency Management Center
Overview
The 'Emergency Management Center' represents systems that support incident management, disaster response and evacuation, security monitoring, and other security and public safety-oriented ITS applications. It includes the functions associated with fixed and mobile public safety communications centers including public safety call taker and dispatch centers operated by police (including transit police), fire, and emergency medical services. It includes the functions associated with Emergency Operations Centers that are activated at local, regional, state, and federal levels for emergencies and the portable and transportable systems that support Incident Command System operations at an incident. This Center also represents systems associated with towing and recovery, freeway service patrols, HAZMAT response teams, and mayday service providers.
It manages sensor and surveillance equipment used to enhance transportation security of the roadway infrastructure (including bridges, tunnels, interchanges, and other key roadway segments) and the public transportation system (including transit vehicles, public areas such as transit stops and stations, facilities such as transit yards, and transit infrastructure such as rail, bridges, tunnels, or bus guideways). It provides security/surveillance services to improve traveler security in public areas not a part of the public transportation system.
It monitors alerts, advisories, and other threat information and prepares for and responds to identified emergencies. It coordinates emergency response involving multiple agencies with peer centers. It stores, coordinates, and utilizes emergency response and evacuation plans to facilitate this coordinated response. Emergency situation information including damage assessments, response status, evacuation information, and resource information are shared The Emergency Management Center also provides a focal point for coordination of the emergency and evacuation information that is provided to the traveling public, including wide-area alerts when immediate public notification is warranted.
It tracks and manages emergency vehicle fleets using real-time road network status and routing information from the other centers to aid in selecting the emergency vehicle(s) and routes, and works with other relevant centers to tailor traffic control to support emergency vehicle ingress and egress, implementation of special traffic restrictions and closures, evacuation traffic control plans, and other special strategies that adapt the transportation system to better meet the unique demands of an emergency.
This physical object is included in the following Service Packages:
- CVO09: Freight-Specific Dynamic Travel Planning
- CVO12: HAZMAT Management
- CVO13: Roadside HAZMAT Security Detection and Mitigation
- CVO14: CV Driver Security Authentication
- CVO15: Fleet and Freight Security
- DM01: ITS Data Warehouse
- MC04: Winter Maintenance
- MC06: Work Zone Management
- MC08: Maintenance and Construction Activity Coordination
- PS01: Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch
- PS02: Emergency Response
- PS03: Emergency Vehicle Preemption
- PS04: Mayday Notification
- PS06: Incident Scene Pre-Arrival Staging Guidance for Emergency Responders
- PS07: Incident Scene Safety Monitoring
- PS08: Roadway Service Patrols
- PS09: Transportation Infrastructure Protection
- PS10: Wide-Area Alert
- PS11: Early Warning System
- PS12: Disaster Response and Recovery
- PS13: Evacuation and Reentry Management
- PS14: Disaster Traveler Information
- PS15: Stolen Vehicle Recovery
- PT05: Transit Security
- TI01: Broadcast Traveler Information
- TI02: Personalized Traveler Information
- TM06: Traffic Information Dissemination
- TM08: Traffic Incident Management System
- TM09: Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management
- TM19: Roadway Closure Management
- TM25: Wrong Way Vehicle Detection and Warning
- VS04: Special Vehicle Alert
- WX02: Weather Information Processing and Distribution
Functionality
Triples
Security
This physical object has the following security levels for the associated service packages.
This interfaces diagram had many interfaces and so was broken up into a Subsystem and Terminator interfaces diagram.
Subsystem Interfaces Diagram
Standards
The following table lists the standards associated with the physical object itself (as opposed to standards associated with an interface). For standards related to interfaces, see the specific information flow triple pages.
Name | Title |
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NEMA TS 8 Cyber and Physical Security | Cyber and Physical Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems |